The art – and science – of scaling in the two-sided marketplace

Dec17

by Sindy Cator on December 17, 2014 at 5:10 pm

Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Insider

Umang Dua is the COO and Co-Founder of Handy. He recently spoke at The Next Web Conference USA. Registration for 2-for-1 tickets for The Next Web Europe is now open, click here to sign up. Building a marketplace is hard. Getting it to scale seamlessly is even harder. Handy, the on-demand home service is a global brand available in 28 markets across three countries, now doing thousands of home cleaning and repair bookings every day. But this wasn’t always the case; we got to where we are today as a result of careful and deliberate actions (and many mistakes) that have…